Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health CareWasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. It examines the development of the Canadian health care system, and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays (funding sources); and whodecides (public, private, and patients). |
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... simply about maintenance . For similar reasons , the problems inherent to the curative approach can- not be solved simply by focusing more on prevention and promotion , defined as a way of maintaining health outside the curative system ...
... simply about maintenance . For similar reasons , the problems inherent to the curative approach can- not be solved simply by focusing more on prevention and promotion , defined as a way of maintaining health outside the curative system ...
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... simply choosing one alternative . CHALLENGE 5. HEALTH AS MAINLY BIOLOGICAL The challenge to the assumption that illness and disability are primarily the result of readily identifiable biological causes is directly linked to the fact ...
... simply choosing one alternative . CHALLENGE 5. HEALTH AS MAINLY BIOLOGICAL The challenge to the assumption that illness and disability are primarily the result of readily identifiable biological causes is directly linked to the fact ...
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... simply closing beds based on the need to save money . If there are fewer beds , but these are always filled , and filled by people with the most complicated problems involving the most expensive services , the savings may not even be ...
... simply closing beds based on the need to save money . If there are fewer beds , but these are always filled , and filled by people with the most complicated problems involving the most expensive services , the savings may not even be ...
Contents
The Wasting Away of Care | 1 |
The Development of Canadian Health Care | 12 |
The Institutions | 46 |
Copyright | |
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Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care Pat Armstrong,Hugh Armstrong Snippet view - 1996 |
Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care Pat Armstrong,Hugh Armstrong No preview available - 2010 |
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Aging/La Revue Canadienne Armstrong assumptions Canada Health Act Canadian Health Canadian Journal Canadienne du Vieillissement caregivers cent Centre choices CIHI clinics CLSCS costs cure cutbacks David Coburn decision-making defined determinants of health developed disabled doctors drugs Elderly eliminated emphasis employees expenditures focus for-profit formula Forum on Health funding Globe and Mail groups Health Canada Health Care Reform Health Services health-care system health-care workers hospital Hugh Armstrong Ibid impact improve increasing increasingly individual institutions Journal on Aging/La labour less long-term means medical model medicare Medicine Moreover National Forum non-profit Ontario Ontario Nurses Association organizations Ottawa patients physicians Policy practices Premier's Council Press problems provinces Quebec reduce Registered Nurses result risk sector skills spending Statistics Canada strategies tasks Technology tion Toronto Star total quality management treatment University women Women's College Hospital